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Observations suggest that pinnipeds may use olfaction in mother\u2013pup interactions, accepting or rejecting pups after naso-nasal contact. Such maternal\u2013offspring recognition is a favourable area for investigating the involvement of odours in social recognition and selectivity, as females are evolutionarily constrained to direct resources to filial young. However, there is no experimental, morphological or chemical evidence to date for the use of olfaction in social contexts and for individual odour recognition abilities in pinnipeds. Here, we report unequivocal evidence that Australian sea lion (\n                    <jats:italic>Neophoca cinerea<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) females can differentiate between the odour of their own pup and that of another, in the absence of any other distinguishing cues. 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